I've long used the capability of the Mac OS to read PC-formatted
removable drives (Jaz & Zip Disks, floppies years ago),
Well, it still works that way and you shouldn't see a difference wether
you plug in a 100 MB Zip floppy or a 250 GB hard drive into your USB
port.
Maxtor makes a OneTouch� line of products the does auto backups (or
file synchronization?) at the press of a button on the front of the
drive. These drives comes in PC-only, Mac-only and dual-platform
versions, determined not by the drive formatting, but by the
back-up/synchronization software.
Maybe there's some utility to change or remove this backup software.
They really should have this backup system designed to coexist with
_any_ OS. What do NetBSD/Linux/AIX/IRIX/... users do with such drives?
So, the consensus seems to be that I should just buy a PC-formatted
drive
It doesn't really matter how the new disk is formatted. Your Mac will
format it for you, even to a MS DOS/Windows file system:
<file:///Library/Documentation/Help/MacHelp.help/Contents/Resources/
English.lproj/pgs/du5.html>
Unless you have a drive hobbled by such a special, drive internal
driver. These are rare, however.
and dispense with MacDrive.
MacDrive lets you mount HFS+ (Macintosh) disks on a Windows PC. You
_can_ use it but don't need to.
Another option whould be to plug your PowerBook into your coworkers
network and download the file via this. Exhausting a 100 Mbit/s
connection, you should be done after about four hours.
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